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Isolation and Characterization of Bacteriophage of E.coli Isolated from Soil of Chicken Farm

LI Yang1,2, WANG Jing2, HUO Kai1, LI Xiao-ying2, KONG Jian1, GU Wei2   

  1.   (1.State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology of Shandong University, Jinan 250100,China;2.Shandong Baolai-Leelai Bioengineering Co., Ltd., Tai’an 271000,China)
  • Online:2014-01-20 Published:2014-02-27

Abstract: 4 of E.coli strains were isolated from the soil of chicken farm on the EMB medium, and further identified as Escherichia coli by 16S rDNA sequence analysis. One virulent phage ΦLY4 was isolated when propagated on the E.coli LY4 as host cells. The phage had the hexagonal head and tail after observing with negatively stained method by electron microscope. The drastic diameter of this phage was 2.5 to 3.8 mm in size, and its phage titer was about 2.0×1010 PFU/mL, the optimal multiplicity of infection was 0.0001. It kept high stability at the temperature of -20 to 37 ℃ and pH at 5.0 to 10.0. Its viability was lost completely at the simulated gastric conditions (pH 1.2). The growth curve showed that its incubation and burst phase was 20 min, and the lysis ability was strong. All of these properties showed that the phage ΦLY4 had a potential application in the control of environmental pollution.

Key words: E.coli; bacteriophage; biological characteristic